Dan Bricklin Quotes
I'm not rich because I invented VisiCalc, but I feel that I've made a change in the world. That's a satisfaction money can't buy.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.
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I want to make sure that teenage girls know that if you decide to keep your child, you have to get an education. You have to have a plan A, B, and C. Make sure you have a good support system. If all those things are not in place, it's going to be very, very hard - very, very lonely.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
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I'm not rich because I invented VisiCalc, but I feel that I've made a change in the world. That's a satisfaction money can't buy.
